Flora MacDonald Denison

Flora MacDonald Denison (20 February 1867-23 May 1921) was President of the Canadian National Suffrage Association from 1911 to 1914.

Biography
Flora MacDonald Denison was born in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada on 20 February 1867, and she ran a dressmaking business before participating in the Toronto women's suffrage movement from 1906. She became widely known through her column in the Toronto Sunday World from 1909 to 1913, and she was always on the radical edge of the movement. In 1914, MacDonald was forced to resign because of her support for the English militant suffragettes. She was horrified by World War I, which she felt needed to be followed by a spiritual renewal amongst Canadians, part of which would involve givign women equal rights. In the last years of her life, she became a theosophist, and she died in 1921.